Oh the dents and the hole and the scratches that last, I could tell some great stories from days that have passed. Oh where have I been and who's been my boss ,I am sorry to say but those things are lost. I am old and I'm worn but I still have some life, I've been kicked and tripped over, seen some troubles and strife. Please give me a home where the fire burns brightly, I will do my best work if you treat me so lightly. ( by the old coal bucket aka my dad) Was one of my grandparents now its mine. My Question What do you haul your ash in?
That was a nice saying...caught my attention right away. My ash pan from under the stove makes it's way to the back porch and is emptied into a 3 gallon pail with a locking lid. Folks with no ash pan under the stove will have to shovel out into a pail. you have a cool looking pail
Will be looking forward to the new ash pan system in my new stove. In my old one, I would shovel ashes into a galvanized pail and take it out to a large galvanized trash can. I have already emptied it once this year and it is about half way full again.
I used to use them in the garden, we had awesome llama manure compost. Here everything is so alkaline already, not helpful for gardening.
My previous home was in the foothills in Fort Collins, so many pine trees most the soil was acidic so the ashes were beneficial.
Have a painter friend that does a lot of lacquer and it comes in metal 5 gallon buckets. Unlimited supply of buckets, when full we dump them in the potholes in our county road, only way they ever get filled. Back to nature.
I have so many nails from burning pallets to offset my wet wood. I keep changing the spot where I dump. This week is landscape garden
Galavanized bucket with lid. I clean out the stove every few days so the hot ash sits in the bucket outside in the snow. Next time I'm going to use it I dump the ash into a section of my yard that hasn't had new grass seed planted the year before. Once the spring comes, all the areas I've put ash will be planted with new seed! Out of 10-acres, I'm replanting about 4-acres.
Looks good. Ive got an 'ol log carrier from my grandparents, that holds the kindlin' now. The jotul has an ash pan, but when it fills, it goes into the 50 gal galv trash pail.
I call them coal hods. I've got one from my grandparents and my wife bought another from a secondhand store. My ashes go in an empty feed bag then the garbage.
I walk to the edge of my property and give them a big sweeping throw into the neighbors woods...At night of coarse!
